turn from me: that which thou puttest on me I will bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

f 15 And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house.

23 Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.

24 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen ?

16 At that time did Hezekiah cute 25 Am I now come up without off the gold from the doors of the the LORD against this place to detemple of the LORD, and from the stroy it? The LORD said to me, pillars which Hezekiah king of Ju-Go up against this land and destroy it. dah had overlaid, and gave it to the 26 Then said Eliakim the son of King of Assyria.

Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rab-shakeh, Speak I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the wall.

f17 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem and they went up, and came to Jerusalem: and when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field. 18 And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son off 23 Then Rab-shakeh stood and Asaph the recorder.

f 19 And Rab-shakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?

20 Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?

21 Now behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.

e 22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem ?

27 But Rab-shakeh said unto them, hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?

cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spake, saying Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:

29 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:

30 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

31 Hearken not unto Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig-tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:

32 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of

bread and vineyards, a land of oil-hath heard: wherefore lift up thy olive and of honey, that ye may prayer for the remnant that are left. live, and not die: and hearken not 5 So the servants of king Hezeunto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth kiah came to Isaiah. you, saying, The LORD will deliver

d 14 And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it and Hezekiah went up d 4 It may be the LORD thy God into the house of the LORD, and will hear all the words of Rab-sha-spread it before the LORD. keh, whom the king of Assyria hist 15 And Hezekiah prayed before master hath sent to reproach the the LORD and said, O LORD God living God; and will reprove the of Israel, which dwellest between words which the LORD thy God the cherubims, thou art the God,

d 16 LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.

even thou alone, of all the kingdoms 25 Hast thou not heard long ago of the earth; thou hast made hea-how I have done it, and of ancient ven and earth. times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps. t 26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the house-tops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

17 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,

18 And have cast their gods into the fire for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone therefore they have destroy

ed them.

b 19 Now therefore, O LORD ourr God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD God, even thou only.

27 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.

28 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest. f 20 Then Isaiah the son of r 29 And this shall be a sign unto Amos sent to Hezekiah, saying, thee, Ye shall eat this year such Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, things as grow of themselves, and That which thou hast prayed to me in the second year that which springagainst Sennacherib king of Assy-eth of the same; and in the third ría I have heard. year sow ye and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.

30 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

i 21 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee. t 22 Whom hast thou reproach- 31 For out of Jerusalem shall go ed and blasphemed? and against forth a remnant, and they that eswhom hast thou exalted thy voice, cape out of mount Zion: the zeal and lifted up thine eyes on high? of the LORD of hosts shall do this. even against the Holy One of Is-r 32 Therefore thus saith the LORD rael.

g 23 By thy messengers thou hast reproached the LORD, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedartrees thereof, and the choice firtrees thereof and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.

24 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.

concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.

33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.

b 34 For I will defend this city, to
save it, for mine own sake, and for
my servant David's sake.
m 35 And it came to pass that
night, that the angel of the LORD
went out, and smote in the camp of

the Assyrians a hundred fourscore iah, What shall be the sign that the and five thousand: and when they LORD will heal me, and that I shall arose early in the morning, behold, go up into the house of the LORD they were all dead corpses. the third day? g 36 So Sennacherib king of As-f 9 And Isaiah said, This sign syria departed, and went and re- shalt thou have of the LORD, that turned, and dwelt at Nineveh. the LORD will do the thing that he f 37 And it came to pass, as he hath spoken: shall the shadow go was worshipping in the house of forward ten degrees, or go back ten Nisroch his god, that Adramme- degrees? lech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.

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10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.

m 11 And Isaiah the prophet cried

IN those days was Hezekiah unto the LORD: and he brought the sick unto death. And the shadow ten degrees backward, by prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came which it had gone down in the dial to him, and said unto him, Thus of Ahaz. saith the LORD, Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die and not live.

2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying,

f 12 At that time Berodach-Baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick. u 13 And Hezekiah hearkened unb 3 I beseech thee, O LORD, re- to them, and shewed them all the member now how I have walked house of his precious things, the silbefore thee in truth and with a per-ver, and the gold, and the spices, fect heart, and have done that which and the precious ointment, and all is good in thy sight. And Hezeki- the house of his armour, and all that ah wept sore. was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not."

4 And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

g14 T Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men ? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, even

r 5 Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day from Babylon. thou shalt go up unto the house off 15 And he said, What have they the LORD.

r 6 And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

seen in thy house? And Hezekiah answered, All the things that are in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.

16 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD.

f7 And Isaiah said, Take a lump r 17 Behold, the days come, that of figs. And they took and laid it all that is in thy house, and that on the bile, and he recovered. which thy fathers have laid up in c 8 Aud Hezekiah said unto Isa-store unto this day, shall be carried

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into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.

18 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

d 19 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if peace and truth be in my days?

f 20 T And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah.

4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD,of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

c 6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times. and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

7 And he set a graven image of

r 14 And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;

15 Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.

c 16 Moreover, Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.